Electronic in Spatial Audio

Back to the source of it all, London’s Charles Green revives the initial grit of techno through hi-NRG blends of powerhouse percussions and dusty atmospheres. Teaming up with Neighbourhood boss Tasha for a special B2B, the British jockey and his acolyte grace us with a two-hour masterclass flush with propulsive old-school rippers, acid-drenched delicacies and further mind-expanding rave material. A true sense of pristine pioneering and enjoyably broad-spirited collagism flow across Green and Tasha’s transmission, making this listen a much essential listen. Lock in!

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Reclaim Your City 476 | Charles Green b2b Tasha

Hyperbits teams up with Vintage & Morelli for 'Noire'!

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It's a dazzling new production from Hyperbits who continues to make his mark on Enhanced, this time joined on production duties by Serbian producer Vintage & Morelli. 'Noire' is a first-rate record from the in-form pairing; a rollicking bassline is bolstered by layers of pristine synths and ear-worm of a lead melody to create a prog house triumph.  

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Noire

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Heart Starts Beating

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Michael Mayer albums don’t come round too often, which is one of many reasons why his fourth collection, The Floor Is Lava, is a genuine event. It’s been eight years since his last one, the collaborative & released on !K7; its predecessors, Mantasy (2012) and Touch (2004), took their sweet time, too. It’s no real surprise, given the many hats Mayer wears – globetrotting DJ, revered remixer, inveterate collaborator, and boss of both Kompakt and Imara – that his solo productions are relatively sparing. But this also speaks to their quality: Mayer’s name on a record sleeve is a sign of quality, of music that’s both looking to the future and calling back to the past, that balances the imperatives of the dancefloor and the loungeroom, that’s as exploratory as it is functional.

On The Floor Is Lava, Mayer seems to be taking the temperature of both the music that surrounds him (past and present), and the ideas of the industry he works within. There’s that iconic album title, for a start. “The album’s mindset,” he says, reflecting on those four words together. For Mayer, it’s partly a critique of the way the industry boxes in both producer and listener, focuses them on genre, on market, on the next new thing: “Being a free minded spirit that transcends genres has become an uphill battle.” A battle worth fighting, though, and with The Floor Is Lava, the result is an album that’s varied, quixotic, idiosyncratic, charming, and deeply, addictively listenable.

Throughout, Mayer finds thrills in exploration and juxtaposition, allowing unexpected things to blossom and giving them their life, their platform, throwing the listener exciting curveballs: “It’s a DJ album by a DJ that’s easily bored.” Either easily bored, or endlessly curious, The Floor Is Lava is rich with ideas. It opens with “The Problem”, which looks back to look forward, embracing the rickety way early house productions threw samples together with gleeful abandon. Mayer mentions Pal Joey, and the scene around Rockers Hi-Fi and their Different Drummer imprint, as reference points, and you can hear that freewheeling spirit throughout.

That’s The Floor Is Lava: then and now, brainwaves and nerve structures, problems and solutions, genres on fire; the real, the unreal, and the surreal. An album for the easily bored and the endlessly curious. Mayer has the last word, telling us all you need to know about the album’s spirit: “Burning for the cause, being zealous, being addicted to the heat of the night, the exuberant powers of music.”

The Floor Is Lava

Ardor

Michael Mayer - Ardor

Barry Can’t Swim live at Brixton Academy

Still Riding (“Ridin Round”) - Green Diesel Version - Barry Can’t Swim (Live)

Pieces

“This album is us appreciating how amazing this thing we have is. The realisation of how lucky we are that we get to be part of something like this for 25 years, and to have built a community that cares for each other in the way it does. It’s not about any of us individually. When we all work together to make something happen, something bigger happens.” - Jono, Paavo and Tony – Above & Beyond. 

If much of the mindset and mantra behind Above & Beyond over the last quarter of a century has been born from the idea of connection, then their fifth artist album ‘Bigger Than All Of Us’ is best summed up in one word: reconnection. 

Introducing, then, Quicksand (Don’t Go), the new single that is, in all the right and best ways, the comeback of Above & Beyond. The lead track from a record where the power, strength, range, appeal and adaptability of the band is baked into the title: their fifth album is Bigger Than All of Us.

Debuted during the bands’ sold out global Group Therapy 600 broadcast in Mexico last October, it reunites Jono, Paavo and Tony with Zoë Johnston – partner in ‘We’re All We Need’, ‘Good For Me’ and ‘Love Is Not Enough’ among countless other favourites. 

“It's classic Zoë Johnston”, explains Above & Beyond. “We've been working with her for 22 years now, so she's a part of the band. By that token, a song with her vocals is a very reassuring thing for our audience. It says: Above & Beyond are back, in a very recognisable form.”

As Johnston puts it of her deeply personal but sublimely universal lyrics: “I think most of us can relate to that feeling of desperation and dread when it comes to losing someone we love so deeply. The despair can be massive when you’re watching the grief rattle down the track towards you for quite some time before the moment of impact actually happens. Disappearing into quicksand. It’s scary, it hurts, and it’s lonely. Hopefully a song like this one makes anyone going through the pain of a seismic loss feel a little bit less alone.”

‘Quicksand (Don’t Go) with Zoë Johnston is out now on Anjunabeats.

Quicksand (Don't Go)

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Feel It

All Set Let's Swim

Back to Where We Were

Kill the Future

Read My Mind

Watch Us Glow (Remixes)

Watch Us Glow (Hyperbits Remix) [feat. Angel Taylor]

Sunrise

Sunrise (feat. April Bender)

Taking Me Higher

Memory

Electric Night

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Formed in 2008 in Austin, TX, by Chad Cisneros and David Reed, Tritonal are one of the most successful US electronic music duos of the past decade, today counting nearly 1B collective streams across their discography, which comprises three artist albums, +200 originals and remixes, and six Top 10 hits on Billboard's electronic charts.

In May 2011, Tritonal released their debut album, ‘Piercing the Quiet,’ one of their first successes. They followed up with the three-part ‘Metamorphic’ EP series (2013-2014), which marked Tritonal’s expansion into new genres and featured their breakout hits, “Now or Never” and “Anchor.”

In Sept. 2016, Tritonal released their second album, ‘Painting With Dreams,’ which has garnered +140M streams on Spotify alone. Their third album, ‘U & Me’ (June 2019), which features collaborations with Sultan + Shepard, platinum singer-songwriter Mozella and multi-platinum artist Rachel Platten, reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Album Sales chart. Tritonal’s 4th and most recent album was released at the beginning of 2021 as an hour long meditation piece. Unique to their existing catalog, Reverence was made in the height of the pandemic from more of a calling than anything else to serve their fans and provide art with a motive of introspection.

Cisneros and Reed are also co-owners of the tastemaker label Enhanced Music, which counts nearly 2,000 releases since its launch in 2008. Dubbed “the label that delivers tune after tune” by Mixmag, Enhanced celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2018 via the expansive '10 Years of Enhanced' compilation.

In addition to ‘Tritonia,’ their globally streamed weekly radio show, Tritonal have headlined the world’s leading festivals, including EDC Las Vegas, Lollapalooza, and Ultra Music Festival.

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Watch Us Glow (Hyperbits Remix) [feat. Angel Taylor]

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